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Painter 7™ Brush Looks

When you create a look that uses a nozzle from a library you will be prompted by Painter to load the library before you can use the nozzle. In this instance I would create a new nozzle library and use the nozzle mover to place any files located in other nozzle libraries into it. Add any individual nozzles you need at the same time. This way I only have to load the nozzle library once when I begin to use the different look brushes.

Assume you are using a mixed set of nozzle looks when the message appears. Click on the Stop Script button. Load the nozzle library containing the nozzle associated with the look icon you selected and continue with your painting, or press Ctrl +L and select another individual nozzle file located on your hard drive and continue painting. Your other option is click on Continue Script, which allows you to continue painting with the previous look.

One of the advantages of working in this manner is that you have all the different tools available in one location in case you ever want to make changes to your image at a later date.

My typical Image Folder contains the following items:

I save my image file in .Riff format each time I complete a layer; I number them sequentially. I also save copies in PSD, Tiff, and Jpg formats.

All Look libraries in named folders.

I also add a named copy of the script (s) so I can easily (most of the time) recreate the image in case of a very rare Bad Riff Data error.

Keep a copy of any documents you create for tutorials, include all related image files.

I save all this data on a CD-RW disk that I keep open so I can continue to add sessions until the CD is full. After testing the back-up CD, I delete all the files to reclaim my hard drive space.